Since I have more available time and money right now, I resolved to spend more time (and possibly money) on my life’s passion, playing violin. I have a membership to Tonebase, which in its ideal form, is like Udemy and Juilliard had a baby. There’s a lot of great material there on all things violin, I already have a lifetime membership (woohoo Cyber Monday), and I can occasionally temporarily forget that I’m not a 12-year-old prodigy with rich parents. This festival came up, with a great lineup of teachers and coaches, and it was enticing in its promise – for two weeks, I could immerse myself in violin education in Germany, and pretend that I go to music school. I could afford it, I have the time – once I looked into plane tickets and hotel fees (when taking thousands of dollars of fragile violin stuff, I’m not exactly going to stay in hostels), it suddenly became less affordable. Thus evaporated that particular idea, that I would advance my hobby in that way.
I can’t post the actual festival schedule here, because it isn’t public, but they show the speaker lineup here , and almost all of them have lectures and workshops on Tonebase, which I already have access to, at 0 additional cost. So, I made my own DIY bootleg schedule for the festival proceedings, where I will sort of follow along, and enjoy not spending a large chunk of my cash reserves on being lonely in Germany. Muenster looks beautiful, and I’m sure it would be an enriching experience, but…I’m not made of money. So the DIY cheap version it is.
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